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www.beepthroat.com "Public records trace how a $235 million voter mandate for light rail gave way to a $3 million driverless-shuttle pilot, and how the consultant who recommended the shuttles had already been introduced to the company that builds them." #Atlanta #transit

BeepThroat: The BeltLine Files

An independent public-records project documenting how Atlanta's voter-approved BeltLine light rail gave way to a driverless-shuttle pilot. Every claim links to a source document.

beepthroat.com

(Not my pictures) People reporting the new fare gates shattered at Civic Center, Dunwoody, Indian Creek, and Georgia State stations. Looks to be on the accessible gates, which are wider. We really couldn't have scripted a more disastrous roll-out. #MARTA #transit

A new glass fare gate at a MARTA station is shattered. A new glass fare gate at a MARTA station is shattered, and blocked off by yellow caution barriers

It's mildly infuriating that MARTA uses more than half of the screens in the station to scroll pointless messages - in this case, about escalator safety. The number one thing we want to see on this screen is upcoming trains. #MARTA #transit

A digital screen in a marta station reading: 

Airport
Arriving
"....single file; one person, per step. Avoid traveling on escalators with a bicycle..."